Anybody know anything about the dive boat that sunk this morning?

[MaxBottomtime]

Naufraga embarcación en arrecife ‘Tormentos

 

[Dogbowl]

View attachment 441055

View attachment 441056




Naufraga embarcación en arrecife ‘Tormentos

Unbelievable. Thanks for posting.

 

[cozdiver3]

Wow!

 

[flyboy08]

A great reason to keep your personal gear in a dry bag secured to some object on the boat.

 

[Dave Dillehay]

The lesson is ( I think) is to make make sure your dive boat operator keeps working bilge pumps. We have lost a few boats in our 25 years—only because the captain went out without working bilge pumps and then had to find another job. The boat that sank (by appearance)should never have gone down in the moderate seas we had.

I really hope it does not make our harbor master more conservative as the conditions over the last few days is normal for most of the world's diving.

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

 

[Dave Dillehay]

A great reason to keep your personal gear in a dry bag secured to some object on the boat.

Im not sure I understand. If you secure your dry bag to a boat that sinks, it won't be very dry when you get it back.

Dave

 

[flyboy08]

Im not sure I understand. If you secure your dry bag to a boat that sinks, it won't be very dry when you get it back.

Dave

You a funny guy

 

[mediumone]

Dave's not the only one who's puzzled.
Something is getting lost .... aside from gear in a bag.

 

[ggunn]

Im not sure I understand. If you secure your dry bag to a boat that sinks, it won't be very dry when you get it back.

Dave

I got the impression that the point was more that it would stay with the boat rather than floating away, not that it would stay dry.

 

[ggunn]

View attachment 441055

View attachment 441056




Naufraga embarcación en arrecife ‘Tormentos

Maybe it's just the camera angle, but that sinking boat looks too far offshore to be in shallow water. Since it was recovered, though, it must have been closer to shore than it appears in the pix.